Sri Lanka, Sept. 4 -- High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Santosh Jha, and Deputy Minister of Housing, Construction and Water Supply, T.B Sarath, jointly inaugurated and handed over 24 housing units in 'Suhada Gama' Model Village in Polonnaruwa district today (4).

Speaker of Parliament, Dr. Jagath Wickramarathna, joined the inauguration ceremony.

The Model Village Housing Project is being implemented in all 25 districts of the island jointly with the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Water Supply of Sri Lanka, with grant support from the Government of India. A Memorandum of Understanding for the initiative was signed in October 2017 between the Governments of India and Sri Lanka.

The project encompasses housing facilities for ...